The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=tgn,7007157&n=1&type=place">California</a>.

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Later from California.

--The Overland Mail, from San Francisco on the 22d ult., has arrived. The following is the more important part of the news:

‘ The Senate yesterday voted to consider that no election has taken place, and passed a resolution to go into a new joint convention, if the Assembly concurs. It is supposed that Mr. Mc Dougall will re-submit his name, in which case it is apparent that he will get such a majority as to make his election doubly sure.

’ The Assembly rejected the Senate resolution for a new joint Senatorial Convention by a nearly unanimous vote.

The Breckinridge State Central Committee is in session at Sacramento, but has done nothing yet.

Large cargoes of silver ore continue to arrive at San Francisco from the Washoe, Esmeralda and Cozo mines.

The Mount Diable coal mines are pronounced by Whitney, State geologist, of apparently unlimited extent. The coal is suitable for manufacturing, steamboat and house-hold purposes, and can be mined at $4 per ton.

A fire at a hay yard, near Folsom street wharf, on the 21st, caused from $12,000 to $20,000 loss.

Matias Moreno, with 200 men, has landed in the lower country, Lower California, and upset the Esparsa Government. It is reported that a fight had taken place, in which a few men were killed and several wounded.

The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 8, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Later from California.